Quotes About Nest

All of the species that have attained eusociality, as I have stressed, live in fortified nest sites.

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown. I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.

In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your nest and say, "This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.

writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your nest and say, "This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

Thus the dream house must possess every virtue. How­ ever spacious, it must also be a cottage, a dove-cote, a nest, a chrysalis. Intimacy needs the heart of a nest. Erasmus, his biographer tells us, was long in finding a nook in his fine house in which he could put his little body with safety. He ended by confining himself to one room until he could breathe the parched air that was necessary to him.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Males, for example, may compete directly to copulate with fertile females or compete indirectly for food, territory, nest sites, or social status that may increase their access to fertile females. In either situation, females are not exactly "choosing" from among male competitors, but acquiescing to sex with the male that holds the food, territory, or nest site that they need in order to reproduce.

I'm a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective - I feel things first, and then I think them through - and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel's nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.

[Of Pembroke College:] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.

His face was contorted with rage, muscles twitching beneath his skin like a nest of rattlesnakes in a thin cotton sack.

The Great Bird will take its flight on the back of the great bird, bringing glory to the nest where it was born.

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone. - Sentry

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest.

Open an IRA to shelter some of your income. This is a fine way to build a nest egg for the future.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

an end; He smiles in His sleep sometimes, and men know the Golden Age; sometimes He is restless, too, and the revolutions come. Will the Dreamer never awake? Who knows! I would hold Him sleeping; For if He should rise from His nest on the down of eternity, He might rub His drowsy eyes -- and I should forget to be.

Like everyone on the set has to take [herpes medication] Valtrex. We hand it out like M&Ms. Hey kids, it's time for Valtrex!' It's like a herpes nest. They're all in there mixing it up.

My goal was to get through the day as fast as possible. I worked fast because I wanted to be done. I wanted to be done because I wanted to go home to my nest and drink.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

Dappled Leaf nodded. "They can share the spare nest." As River Ripple disappeared inside his den, Moth Flight glanced shyly at Micah. She'd only shared a nest with her brother before. Dust Muzzle had always teased her that it was like sleeping next to a badger. "I'm afraid I snore." "Good." He took another bite of fish. "I snore too." Dappled Pelt rolled her eyes. "Great," she muttered.